1 January 1901 - 24 September 1903 (2 years, 8 months, 24 days) Sir Edmund Barton, PC, GCMG, KC (Protectionist Party)

24 September 1903 - 27 April 1904 (7 months, 4 days) Alfred Deakin (Protectionist Party)

27 April 1904 - 17 August 1904 (3 months, 21 days) John Christian Watson (Australian Labor Party)

18 August 1904 - 5 July 1905 (10 months, 18 days) George Houstoun Reid, PC, KC (Free Trade)

5 July 1905 - 13 November 1908 (3 years, 4 months, 9 days) Alfred Deakin (Protectionist Party)

13 November 1908 - 2 June 1909 (6 months, 21 days) Andrew Fisher (Australian Labor Party)

2 June 1909 - 29 April 1910 (10 months, 28 days) Alfred Deakin (Protectionist Party)

29 April 1910 - 24 June 1913 (3 years, 1 month, 26 days) Andrew Fisher (Australian Labor Party)

24 June 1913 - 17 September 1914 (1 year, 2 months, 25 days) Joseph Cook (Liberal Party of Australia)

17 September 1914 - 27 October 1915 (1 year, 1 month, 11 days) Andrew Fisher (Australian Labor Party)

27 October 1915 - 9 February 1923 (7 years, 3 months, 14 days) William Morris Hughes (Australian Labor Party; Nationalist Party from 1917)

9 February 1923 - 22 October 1929 (6 years, 8 months, 14 days) Stanley Melbourne Bruce, PC, CH, MC (Nationalist Party )

22 October 1929 - 6 January 1932 (2 years, 2 months, 16 days) James Henry Scullin, PC (Australian Labor Party)

6 January 1932 - 7 April 1939 (7 years, 3 months, 2 days) Joseph Aloysius Lyons, PC, CH (United Australia Party)

7 April 1939 - 26 April 1939 (20 days) Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page, PC, GCMG (Australian Country Party)

26 April 1939 - 29 August 1941 (2 years, 4 months, 4 days) Robert Gordon Menzies, PC, KC (United Australia Party)

29 August 1941 - 7 October 1941 (1 month, 9 days) Arthur William Fadden (Australian Country Party)

7 October 1941 - 5 July 1945 (3 years, 8 months, 29 days) John Curtin, PC (Australian Labor Party)

6 July 1945 - 13 July 1945 (8 days) Francis Michael Forde, PC (Australian Labor Party)

13 July 1945 - 19 December 1949 (4 years, 5 months, 7 days) Joseph Benedict Chifley, PC (Australian Labor Party)

19 December 1949 - 26 January 1966 (16 years, 1 month, 8 days) Robert Gordon Menzies, PC, KC (Liberal Party of Australia)

26 January 1966 - 19 December 1967 (1 year, 10 months, 23 days) Harold Edward Holt, PC, CH (Liberal Party of Australia)

19 December 1967 - 10 January 1968 (23 days) John McEwen, PC (Australian Country Party)

10 January 1968 - 10 March 1971 (3 years, 2 months) John Grey Gorton, PC (Liberal Party of Australia)

10 March 1971 - 5 December 1972 (1 year, 8 months, 25 days) William McMahon, PC, CH (Liberal Party of Australia)

5 December 1972 - 11 November 1975 (2 years, 11 months, 7 days) Edward Gough Whitlam, QC (Australian Labor Party)

11 November 1975 - 11 March 1983 (7 years, 4 months) John Malcolm Fraser, PC, CH (Liberal Party of Australia)

11 March 1983 - 20 December 1991 (8 years, 9 months, 10 days) Robert James Lee Hawke, AC (Australian Labor Party)

20 December 1991 - 11 March 1996 (4 years, 2 months, 20 days) Paul John Keating (Australian Labor Party)

11 March 1996 - John Winston Howard (Liberal Party of Australia)

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